“War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes Buddhism from any other faith I’ve studied—from most human beings, really—is that the people who face the wall and the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
High Frontier places a bullet-proof vest on our bare chest. High Frontier is as non-aggressive as a bullet-proof vest. There is no… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
